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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Alexi Duggins

‘I became fair game’: Charlotte Church on Chris Moyles offering to take her virginity at 16

‘There was just this sort of shift where I became fair game’ … Charlotte Church in Kathy Burke: Growing Up.
‘There was just this sort of shift where I became fair game’ … Charlotte Church in Kathy Burke: Growing Up. Photograph: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock

Charlotte Church has discussed how Chris Moyles offered to take her virginity during his Radio 1 show. In a new Channel 4 series, Kathy Burke: Growing Up, the singer talks about how, on her 16th birthday in 2002, the DJ decided to mark the occasion by announcing that he wanted to “lead her through the forest of sexuality now she had reached 16”.

“Is that when it started to get dark? When you were basically reaching puberty? That’s when they started to write about you differently?” asks Burke before Church responds: “Yeah, there was just this sort of shift where I became fair game.”

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